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Windows Feedback: a WSL love letter

Introduction

As many of you, you might have seen a request for Feedback from the Windows team and how it help us innovating, creating or simply help running our daily Business.

For me, while Windows 10 is certainly one of the best version so far, what really stood out since now almost 2 years is WSL.

So here is the text I sent as a feedback (minus the typos) and I will warn you: this IS a Love Letter. So if you're not interested in "Care Bear" writting, good bye and have a nice day.

The feedback

Windows 10 is for me the WSL love and the impact it’s causing on the “legacy IT genes” itself.

Since now ever, in a computerized view, Windows was the evil Dragon to be slain by the *nix knights in shiny armor.

And then Windows 10 came, with two main crazy ideas.The first one is to have an unchanged, not recompiled linux environment running side by side with Windows and not virtually (as in Virtualization) separated.

And with the possibility to call binaries from both sides: Interoperability was born.

But *nix systems are more than technology, they’re a philosophy and that’s the second crazy idea which was actually triggered before Windows 10, and is now popularized during this era: be OpenSource.

So what is Windows 10 for me? a rebirth!

I fear no more going to conventions and say that I love Windows and at the same time use bash as my daily shell.

I’m no more looked at as I was an alien with a non-Mac laptop and not running Linux as my main OS.

Human change managment is hard and in a technological world, it’s even harder to be accepted (and it’s a “white bro” talking right...).

Windows 10, with such projects as WSL are showing that, if years of community divison made Microsoft “reign”, today by being inclusive, Microsoft is prospering and a respected Technology leader.

>>> Nunix Out <<<

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